The Mountain and the Politics of Representation

by Hall, Jenny; Hall, Martin

• ISBN13: 9781837645060
• ISBN10: 183764506X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-12-15
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements

Introduction
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Commodification and the Mountain
1. Fiona Mossman: Scripted Summits: Book History, Mountaineering, and the Experiences of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999)
2. Martin Hall - Tommy Caldwell's The Push: Climbing, Edgework and Media Perceptions of Risk
3. David Lombard: Thinking with a Mountain: A Narratological and Rhetorical Analysis of the Haptic Sublime in Jon Krakauer's Mountaineering Memoirs
4. James N. Maples and Michael J. Bradley: Transforming the Dirtbag Label in Kentucky's Red River Gorge
5. Sarah Ives: Decolonizing Mountain Writing: Gender, Race, and the Mini-Memoirs of the Digital Age

Intersectional perspective of Mountaineering
6. Anandarup Biswas: Bengal's Encounter With the Himalaya: Mountaineering Beyond Conquest
7. Emma Gleadhill: 'Upon the whole I expect he took me for an aventurière': British women Grand Tourists' accounts of mountains and mountaineering
8. Sarah Lonsdale: 'The Woman Business': Dorothy Pilley's Climbing Days
9. Agnieszka Kaczmarek: Wanda Rutkiewicz and Ewa Matuszewska: Deliberations on the auto/biographical 'Na jednej linie (On One Rope)'
10. Jenny Hall - Julie Tullis: Gender and the emotional labour of climbing the 'Mountain of Mountains'

Embodying The Mountain
11. Ben Garlick: The Total Mountain: Nan Shepherd and the Virtual Qualities of Landscape
12. Anna Holman: The Representation of Play in Joe Simpson's Touching the Void and Paratexts
13. Christopher Kocela: Walking Mountains: Zen practice and ecological awareness in Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard
14. Paul Gilchrist: Fatherhood, emotional (dis)entanglements and adventurous masculinities: Ben Fogle on Everest

Conclusion
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